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3139 SENECA | HIS TENNE TRA- | GEDIES, TRANSLA- | TED INTO | English. | Mercurij nutrices, hora. |

[Edited by THOMAS NEWTON]

IMPRINTED

AT LONDON IN

Fleetftreete neere vnto
Saincte Dunstans

Church by Tho

mas Marsh.
1581.

Title neatly

4to, FIRST EDITION, Black Letter, bound in half dark brown morocco, gilt edges. Title within woodcut border, with signatures of former owners. mounted (a small portion of margin cut off). AUTOGRAPH SIGNATURE of EDW. WOTTON (to whom the fifth tragedy, "Edipus," was dedicated) pasted on fly-leaf. BOOKPLATE of W. P. TURnbull. A few leaves trimmed close and some leaves water

stained, OTHERWISE GOOD COPY.

EXTREMELY RARE. The translations were made by JASPER HEYWOod, Alex. NEVILE, JOHN STUDLEY, T. NUCE and THOMAS NEWTON. TWO OF THE TRAGedies, "Thebais" and "Hippolitus," WERE HERE FIRST PRINTED. The others had a previous and separate publication.

3140 SETTLE (ELKANAH).

Carmen Frenicum. THE

UNION OF THE | Imperial Crowns | OF |
Great Britain. | AN | Heroick POEM. | LONDON,
Printed by J. Brudenell in Little-Britain, for the Author. | M DCCVII.
[1707.]

Folio, bound in full morocco, with the ROYAL ARMS STAMPED ON SIDES, enclosed
within a gilt panel, with corner ornaments.
FINE COPY.

3141 SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM). VENUS and ADONIS, from the hitherto unknown edition of 1599;

THE PASSIONATE PILGRIME, from the first edition of 1599; of which only two copies are known;

EPIGRAMMES, written by SIR JOHN DAVIES, and certaine of OVID'S ELEGIES, translated by CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE, from a rare early edition.

Edited by CHARLES EDMONDS, Editor of the "Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin." LONDON: 1870.

8vo, vellum boards, uncut. No. 19 OF ONLY 25 COPIES PRINTED ON LARGE PAPER.

3142 SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM).

THE

RAPE

OF

LVCRECE.

By

Mr. William Shakespeare.

Newly Reuifed

LONDON

Printed by I. B. for Roger Iackson, and are
to be fold at his shop neere the Conduit

in Fleet-ftreet. 1624.

12mo, bound in full green crushed levant morocco, gilt tooling on back and sides, inside morocco border, gilt edges, by BRADSTREET. Title has been skillfully repaired. Some former owner has copied a few words of the imprint on the title. A very slight hole in one leaf, evidently the result of natural wear of the paper. THE BOOK HAS EVEN THE

AMPLE MARGINS, NOT A HEAD-LINE OR A CATCH-WORD BEING AFFECTED.
NOTES AT SIDE-MARGINS ARE UNTOUCHED, AND A COUPLE OF LEAVES HAVE ROUGH
EDGES.

AN EXCESSIVELY RARE EDITION. The copy sold at PUTTICK's in May, 1866, for £54 is presumably the one described in the LOCKER-LAMPSON Catalogue.

3143 SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM).

POEMS: | VVRIT

TEN BY WIL. SHAKE-SPEARE. | Gent.

Printed at London by Tho. Cotes, and are

to be fold by Iohn Benfon, dwelling in

St. Dunstans Church-yard. 1640.

12m0, FIRST EDITION, beautifully bound in full dark blue morocco, richly tooled gilt back, paneled sides, with tasteful corner ornaments, broad gilt tooled morocco inside borders, edges gilded on the rough, by FRANCIS BEDFORD. BRILLIANT and ORIGINAL IMPRESSION of the RARE ENGRAVED PORTRAIT of SHAKESPEARE, by WILLIAM MARSHALL (most skillfully remargined). A BEAUTIFUL COPY OF THIS EXCESSIVELY RARE WORK, THE LEAVES CRISP AND CLEAN, AND THE MARGINS AMPLE.

THE

RAPE

OF

LVCRECE

Lomon Prints By by J. B. for Roger Säckin Mr. William Shakespeare. 1624.

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